featured competitions

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow

Designed to boost interest and proficiency in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is a nationwide contest that challenges public school teachers and students in grades 6-12 to show how STEM can be applied to help improve their local community.

Zurich Innovation World Championship

Zurich, a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets, has launched the Zurich Innovation World Championship, a platform for inspiring innovators to showcase transformative technologies in their key business areas of mobility, smart homes and buildings, digital health and financial planning. They're seeking innovative customer-focused products or services from the brightest and best startups and entrepreneurs in the insurtech space.

Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge

The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge aims to recognize new innovative solutions that leverage technology for social impact from student entrepreneurs around the world. The Challenge is open to students and recent alumni from any college or university.

Harbor Freight Tools for Schools

Skilled trades teachers are heroes, and it’s time to recognize them. We’ve seen firsthand the impact that skilled trades teachers in this country are making in the lives of students. They’re teaching them how to repair cars, how to weld, how to build houses, how to install electrical systems and plumbing, the list goes on and on. These educators are giving our young people tangible skills that lead to great jobs after high school graduation. $1 million in prizes is awarded to outstanding skilled trades teachers and their public high schools.

The Drucker Prize

The Drucker Prize continues to recognize the organization that best exemplifies Peter Drucker’s definition of innovation: “change that creates a new dimension of performance.” While only one organization will win the $100,000, everyone who applies will get something just as valuable: powerful new tools for effectiveness.

Interesting facts about this competition:

$100,000

Prizes

“Skild allows me to manage the Cade Museum Prize with ease- the customization tools are extremely intuitive and data analytics are flawless. After having experienced several other competition platforms, never before have I been able to pull such a personalized set of statistics and data. Both participants and judges regularly comment to me on how well designed and easy it is to participate in the Cade Museum Prize using Skild, which is always a priority when managing a prize competition. The crowning stroke is that Skild team takes client relations to the highest level, and they are always eager to work with me to actualize new ideas.”

Alexandra Rhoton - Program ManagerCade Museum Prize for Innovation

“The Skild platform enabled us to run a contest where customers submitted entries that were judged by a panel of employees. The back end was user-friendly and easy to maintain, while the front end was very professional looking and easy for customers to use. The Skild support team was helpful in getting us up and running on a tight deadline.”

“My business is being a speaker at events. I knew nothing about planning my own awards conference. Skild was easy to set up and execute. The best part was that their support was outstanding and help us with all our questions as soon as they came up. I never want to do an event without them!”

Barry Moltz - Small Business Expert & Co-creator of The Rule Breaker Awards

“I chose Skild for my organization's annual contest because the previous platform I used made it hard to get the information I needed and to make content changes quickly. With Skild, I have been able to run reports and to easily make tweaks and changes both before and during the contest. Skild lets me focus on what matters most: increasing participation and reducing the time I spend on the back-end.”

Jonathan Streeter - University Communications Manager

“The Skild platform was instrumental in organizing and evaluating over 100 applications for our first ever recognition award event in education. The platform is intuitive and easy to set up with a clean interface. The Skild team was also very proactive in offering ways to improve the experience and helping to troubleshoot issues.”

N. S. - Program ManagerRightStep Education Innovation

guide

Ideas for Marketing Your Competition, Contest, Challenge or Award Program

So, you’ve got your event all lined up, a new website designed, submission forms outlined, prize money secured, you’ve tested everything on your competition platform (Skild, of course) and you’re ready to launch your program to the world. After all, as was said in the movie, Field of Dreams, “If you build it they will come.” You’re ready!

Whoa! Not so fast. You've got more to think about. To start the process, you’ll need to consider these questions:

Who is my audience? What are their ages? Genders? Geographical location? What do they do for a living?

What are their interests?

Where are they spending their time?

Why do you need for them to participate?

How can we gauge their interests and attract them to our

event?

This document will highlight some of the ways you can target participants.